That's a fancy article and all, but it's a spurious connection between the airbag and the pneumonia. Two months is a long time. It takes more than sarcasm and a coroner saying "misadventure" to come even close to proof.
Please stop equating capitalism with cheating. They are not the same thing. Cheating and greed are human failings that happen with any economic system.
By dollar amount, sure. But those $15 DVD players cross the border with about $1 of value stamped on them. So for every $50,000 BMW we import from Germany, we are importing 50,000 DVD players from China. So the OP might be right, if you are counting by numbers of units.
Same thing with olive oils. It is nearly impossible to get good oil in any stores, because certain European countries cannot be trusted to oversee their oil production. The fact is, the vast majority of humanity is out to make a quick buck and doesn't really give a shit about anything else.
That sounds suspiciously like onerous Obama regulations on business that are destroying America, to me. These proud businessmen are charging $1000 for a part packed in newspaper in a box that has "xmass Gnome figure" crossed out and "A1R8AG for TOYOTACAMERY" written on the side that they bought for $75 from some guy in a van. They are wealth creators! Leave 'em alone, ya commie. Also, caveat emptor, you should have known better. When the "airbag" filled with depleted uranium kills your family, don't try suing anyone either, or else you'd be a lazy goldbrick, looking to profit off of the poor businessman who's just trying to feed his family and his beleaguered insurance company.
Don't forget the subtext of "I'm Taxed Enough Already, Rush Limbaugh is a genius, I got footprints in the sand next to me, tell me what to think, Jesus!"
Indeed. When you think about it, it becomes hard to understand how they make them so cheaply. My car has like 10 airbags, and [a cheaper version of] the car can be had for $15,000, brand new.
The only place where price might get messed with is the middlemen/insurance connection. Even though the auto manufacturer sets the wholesale price of the thing, the retail price will float all over the place because the end consumer isn't seeing it or paying for it.
Stuff made on the same assembly line isn't exactly counterfeiting, is it? Items like that are more like black market or dark grey market goods. Maybe my own definition of counterfeit is more narrow than other people's. I always thought counterfeit goods were goods that are not made by the same people (authorized or not) and sold as the real thing in the grey or white market.
This is why you will never ever hear a thing about the thousands arrested by government across the country protesting the bankers and wall street and such
They weren't arrested for protesting, they were arrested for violating the law. Usually stuff like blocking streets and camping in public spaces and whatnot.
yet not a single banker has been prosecuted even where outright fraud has been admitted and proven
Show me evidence of ONE banker who admitted breaking the law.
Maher is a self important ass who uses big words and likes to think he is smart, but most of his ideas can't stand up to scrutiny. Calling him intelligent is an insult to the rest of America.
It depends. Outsourcing goes bad when the people doing the outsourcing can't (or won't) understand whether they are getting good results or not. Simple example: the supply division switches over to refilled toner cartridges. Their costs go down. Yay! Meanwhile, the people fixing the printers see an uptick in service calls and the end users have more downtime. It's easy to measure those increases, but it's harder to correlate them and then prove it to the decision makers.
There are lots of situations where outsourcing IT makes sense, but only if an org is lucky enough to have a good provider and smart enough to retain some people to oversee it properly.
That would probably end up being some kind of intentional nuisance. Plus, they'd never give you the construction permits to do it, which means you'd be in trouble on that end too.
You can look at it two ways, both of which lead to the same answer. First, the "for public use" portion is a constraint on who does the taking, not on what happens after the taking is done. Secondly, "for public use" can mean almost anything. If the public, by way of their elected representatives, decides they need a riverwalk instead of a shantytown, then the taking is a public use. No matter who ends up ultimately owning it. The point of the clause is to force the government to compensate the property owner. A strict "public use only" interpretation would seem to force the government to never be able to rid itself of the property should it desire to. And even if all of that is wrong, the government can end-run around all of that by simply leasing to property to the entities they wish to occupy the property.
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That's a fancy article and all, but it's a spurious connection between the airbag and the pneumonia. Two months is a long time. It takes more than sarcasm and a coroner saying "misadventure" to come even close to proof.
That's what lawsuits are for. You sue the person who put in the bad airbag, and they sue the person who sold them the bad airbag, and so on.
What's his plan? Going back to protectionism and tariffs?
Unless tort reform passes, and then you can only sue if the government approves.
You are a moron.
Please stop equating capitalism with cheating. They are not the same thing. Cheating and greed are human failings that happen with any economic system.
By dollar amount, sure. But those $15 DVD players cross the border with about $1 of value stamped on them. So for every $50,000 BMW we import from Germany, we are importing 50,000 DVD players from China. So the OP might be right, if you are counting by numbers of units.
Same thing with olive oils. It is nearly impossible to get good oil in any stores, because certain European countries cannot be trusted to oversee their oil production. The fact is, the vast majority of humanity is out to make a quick buck and doesn't really give a shit about anything else.
That sounds suspiciously like onerous Obama regulations on business that are destroying America, to me. These proud businessmen are charging $1000 for a part packed in newspaper in a box that has "xmass Gnome figure" crossed out and "A1R8AG for TOYOTACAMERY" written on the side that they bought for $75 from some guy in a van. They are wealth creators! Leave 'em alone, ya commie. Also, caveat emptor, you should have known better. When the "airbag" filled with depleted uranium kills your family, don't try suing anyone either, or else you'd be a lazy goldbrick, looking to profit off of the poor businessman who's just trying to feed his family and his beleaguered insurance company.
Don't forget the subtext of "I'm Taxed Enough Already, Rush Limbaugh is a genius, I got footprints in the sand next to me, tell me what to think, Jesus!"
Indeed. When you think about it, it becomes hard to understand how they make them so cheaply. My car has like 10 airbags, and [a cheaper version of] the car can be had for $15,000, brand new.
The only place where price might get messed with is the middlemen/insurance connection. Even though the auto manufacturer sets the wholesale price of the thing, the retail price will float all over the place because the end consumer isn't seeing it or paying for it.
Only when they get caught.
Stuff made on the same assembly line isn't exactly counterfeiting, is it? Items like that are more like black market or dark grey market goods. Maybe my own definition of counterfeit is more narrow than other people's. I always thought counterfeit goods were goods that are not made by the same people (authorized or not) and sold as the real thing in the grey or white market.
This is why you will never ever hear a thing about the thousands arrested by government across the country protesting the bankers and wall street and such
They weren't arrested for protesting, they were arrested for violating the law. Usually stuff like blocking streets and camping in public spaces and whatnot.
yet not a single banker has been prosecuted even where outright fraud has been admitted and proven
Show me evidence of ONE banker who admitted breaking the law.
Maher is a self important ass who uses big words and likes to think he is smart, but most of his ideas can't stand up to scrutiny. Calling him intelligent is an insult to the rest of America.
Ugh. You really don't get it, do you? You are a tool, used to amass a fortune for Rush Limbaugh.
Stop victim blaming. The government is the victim of the republican party.
There is no need to break laws in order to protest.
If done correctly, their profits are only their cut of your savings. You save, they profit, everyone wins.
That seems like more of a reason, provided the company that provides the IT is more of an expert in compliance than the main company.
It's all about economies of scale. Every situation is different.
It depends. Outsourcing goes bad when the people doing the outsourcing can't (or won't) understand whether they are getting good results or not. Simple example: the supply division switches over to refilled toner cartridges. Their costs go down. Yay! Meanwhile, the people fixing the printers see an uptick in service calls and the end users have more downtime. It's easy to measure those increases, but it's harder to correlate them and then prove it to the decision makers.
There are lots of situations where outsourcing IT makes sense, but only if an org is lucky enough to have a good provider and smart enough to retain some people to oversee it properly.
That would probably end up being some kind of intentional nuisance. Plus, they'd never give you the construction permits to do it, which means you'd be in trouble on that end too.
You can look at it two ways, both of which lead to the same answer. First, the "for public use" portion is a constraint on who does the taking, not on what happens after the taking is done. Secondly, "for public use" can mean almost anything. If the public, by way of their elected representatives, decides they need a riverwalk instead of a shantytown, then the taking is a public use. No matter who ends up ultimately owning it. The point of the clause is to force the government to compensate the property owner. A strict "public use only" interpretation would seem to force the government to never be able to rid itself of the property should it desire to. And even if all of that is wrong, the government can end-run around all of that by simply leasing to property to the entities they wish to occupy the property.
The contract of sale is different from the contract for the loan.